Abstract

Archives and special collections provide a physical history of the field of children’s and young adult literature. As curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections for over 40 years, Karen Nelson Hoyle is well prepared to explain how such collections enable researchers to seek—and hopefully to find—a “story behind the story” that may be revealed through an examination of the materials held in such collections. These materials may include draft and final manuscripts and artwork; correspondence; first and variant editions of published books; and other materials relevant to the creation and publication of texts for young readers. As a historian of children’s literature, Leonard Marcus takes his Point of Departure opportunity to describe some of the resources he has found and assistance he has received at the Kerlan as well as other special collections.

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